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Publications

March 1, 2026

Examining the effect of neighborhood sanitation coverage on childhood diarrheal disease in rural Bangladesh

Hannah Van Wyk, Andrew F Brouwer, Jesse Contreras, Mahbubur Rahman, Mahfuza Islam, Amy J Pickering, Benjamin F Arnold, Stephen P Luby, John M Colford, Matthew Freeman, Ayse Ercumen, Joseph NS Eisenberg

February 17, 2026

Harnessing evolution: leveraging bacterial isoprenoid pathway diversity toward improved bioengineering strategies

Christine M. Qabar, Bailey A. Marshall, Robert Landick, Jeffery S. Cox

December 12, 2025

Target cell tension regulates macrophage trogocytosis [Pre-print]

Daniel Fletcher, Caitlin Cornell, Aymeric Chorlay, Deepak Krishnamurthy, Nicholas Martin, Lucia Baldauf

December 10, 2025

Rainfall and temperature influence effectiveness of on-site sanitation intervention against E. coli contamination in Bangladeshi households

Caitlin G Niven, Mahfuza Islam, Anna Nguyen, Andrew Mertens, Amy J Pickering, Laura H Kwong, Mahfuja Alam, Debashis Sen, Sharmin Islam, Mahbubur Rahman, Leanne Unicomb, Alan E Hubbard, Stephen P Luby, Jessica A Grembi, John M Colford Jr, Benjamin F Arnold, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Ayse Ercumen

November 20, 2025

Longitudinal single cell multi-omic profiling of Nicaraguan children reveals trajectories of pediatric immune development and variation 2840

Leon Bichmann, Nicholas Rachmaninoff, Stephen Popper, Neha Bansal, Galina Koroleva, Can Liu, Andrew Martins, Lionel Gresh, Jose Victor Zambrana, Aubree Gordon, Philip Johnson, Guillermina Kuan, Angel Balmaseda, Eva Harris, John Tsang

November 20, 2025

Diverse infection models demonstrate robust resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to innate immunity [Pre-print]

Marian R Fairgrieve, Ella C Brydon, Roberto A Chavez, Dmitri I Kotov, Russell E Vance

November 20, 2025

Circadian control of the innate immune response to plasmodium infection 4542

Bianca Parisi, Shawn Nguyen, Russell E Vance, Filipa Rijo-Ferreira

November 20, 2025

Multiple roads lead to Rome: B cell imprinting in distinct sequential flavivirus infections reveals different pathways to acquiring virus-neutralizing antibodies 4434

Tulika Singh, Sandra Bos, Gerald Vásquez Alemán, Tiffany Kim, Miriam Walter, Nharae Lee, Elias Duarte, Aaron Graber, Amir Balakhmet, José Victor Zambrana, Jorge Ruiz Salinas, Federico Narvaez, Angel Balmaseda, Eun-Young Kim, Steven Wolinsky, Eva Harris

November 20, 2025

Back to Coley: rethinking bacteria as an anticancer agent 3409

Michel DuPage , Jesse Garcia Castillo , Timothy Campbell , Sebastian Fernandez , Diego Gonzalez Ventura , Jacob E. Williams , Jenna Vickery , Daniel A. Portnoy

November 20, 2025

Dynamics of antibody responses following primary dengue virus 3 infections in Nicaragua reveals differential waning of IgG responses by antigen and subclass 3546

Aquena Hana Ball, Elias Duarte, José Victor Zambrana, Sandra Bos, Agamjot Bal, Marco Antonio Chapa, Claudia Sanchez San Martin, Guillermina Kuan, Angel Balmaseda, Eva Harris

November 19, 2025

Comparing human pediatric immune responses to primary infection with dengue, chikungunya and Zika viruses

Lewis E Tomalin, Sandra Bos, Rafael Fenutria, Yitong Chen, Seunghee Kim-Schulze, Adeeb H Rahman, Angel Balmaseda, Ana Fernandez-Sesma, Eva Harris, Mayte Suaréz-Fariñas

November 19, 2025

Dengue Virus NS1 Binds Ephrin B1 to Trigger Endothelial Dysfunction [Pre-print]

Felix Pahmeier, Sabrina Rose Hammond, Charlotte Flory, Xinyi Feng, Saeyoung Elin Lee, Erika Vanessa Jimenez-Posada, Elias M Duarte, Jaime A Cardona-Ospina, Aquena H Ball, Nharae E Lee, Kayla Leung, Laurentia V Tjang, P Robert Beatty, Scott B Biering, Pietro Scaturro, Eva Harris

November 17, 2025

Assessment of exposure to zoonoses and perceptions of zoonotic transmission surrounding the Bwindi impenetrable forest, Uganda

Nahabwe Haven, Birungi Mutahunga, Scott Kellermann, Jalika Joyner, Julia Lippert, Evan Andrew Rusoja, Michael Wilkes, Gilbert Mateeka, Benard Ssebide, Charlotte  Aguti,Isaac Ahwera, Charles Mugisa, Felista Nanono, Prossy Katushabe, Nicole R. Gardner, Christine Kreuder Johnson, Tierra Smiley Evans 

November 10, 2025

Genomic Evolution of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Strains and Climatic Factors in Driving Cholera Surges in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1996-2024

Munirul Alam, Md Mamun Monir, Khalilur Rahman, Mohammad Islam, Marzia Sultana, Wali Ullah, Sardar Osail, Shirajum Monira, Kimberley Seed, Andrew Camilli, Carla Mavian, Nicholas Thomson, Rita R Colwell, Faruque, Tahmeed Ahmed

November 10, 2025

Shigella OspF blocks rapid p38-dependent priming of the NAIP–NLRC4 inflammasome

Elizabeth A Turcotte, Kyungsub Kim, Kevin D Eislmayr, Lisa Goers, Patrick S Mitchell, Cammie F Lesser, Russell E Vance

November 7, 2025

Impact of self-administered pulse oximetry among non-hospitalized patients at risk of severe COVID-19 in Honduras: A pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial with temporal clustering

Kathryn W. Roberts  Berta Alvarez, Michael de St. Aubin, Omar Diaz, Salomé Garnier, C. Daniel Schnorr, Saul Cruz, Lorenzo Pavon, Angela Ochoa, Rachel See, Shiony Medice, Homer Mejía Santos, Jonatán Ochoa, Sogeiry Solis, Devan Dumas, Margaret Baldwin, Alcides Martinez, Avi Hakim, Eric Nilles

November 1, 2025

Emergence of Dengue Virus Serotype 3, Lineage III_B. 3.2, Angola

Jocelyne Neto de Vasconcelos, Ingra M Claro, Raissa Heloisa de Araujo Eliodoro, Filipe RR Moreira, Amilton Pereira, Luzia Samuel, Esménia Coelho Rocha, Eusébio Manuel, Nelson Mapenzi-Kashali, Fiston Cikaya Kankolongo, Darlan S Cândido, Jaqueline Goes de Jesus, Gilda Mariano, Sofia Sousa, Carina Clemente, Cláudia Muenga, Ilaria Dorigatti, William M de Souza, Charles Whittaker, Victoria M Cox, Wes Hinsley, Nicholas Loman, Joshua Quick, Placide Mbala, Nuno R Faria, Joana Morais, FEEVIR Consortium

November 1, 2025

Inferring the sensitivity of wastewater metagenomic sequencing for early detection of viruses: a statistical modelling study

Simon L Grimm, Jeff T Kaufman, Daniel P Rice, Charles Whittaker, William J Bradshaw, Michael R McLaren

October 31, 2025

Mycobacterium tuberculosis triggers reduced inflammatory cytokine responses and virulence in mice lacking Tax1bp1

Jeffrey Chin, Nalin Abeydeera, Teresa Repasy, Rafael Rivera-Lugo, Gabriel Mitchell,Vinh Q Nguyen, Weihao Zheng, Alicia Richards, Erica Stevenson, Danielle L Swaney, Nevan J Krogan, Joel D Ernst, Jeffery S Cox, Jonathan M Budzik